Teacher Appreciation Day Quotes by Joseph Addison, William Arthur Ward, Patricia Neal, Amos Bronson Alcott, Lily Tomlin, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and many others.
No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate ‘apparently ordinary’ people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The children are now working as if I did not exist.
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.
The greatest sign of success for a teacher…is to be able to say, “The children are now working as if I did not exist.”
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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